I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

I've spent some time in North and Central Queensland, in fact as recently as yesterday I was in Rockhampton, where the seat of Capricornia is based. I have to tell you that people in Queensland, but particularly regional Queensland, are very concerned about jobs. They are very concerned that the economic future for themselves and their children and their grandchildren should be - should be clear.